Raúl Ruiz Movies

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The...

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea....

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his...

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus...

Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is...

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’...

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at...

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.

The film was made from the show Edipo Iperboreo (1989), directed by Ruiz. The shooting took place in Buti (Villa Medicea, Castello di Buti and the...

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through...

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or...

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased...

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose...